Denys Berezhnyi

Guitar-plus-Vocal School

Singing lessons? Voice? Or guitar lessons? Why is it important to learn to sing and self-accompany on guitar at the same time? Who teaches this, and where? How to avoid common mistakes in choosing a teacher? Pros and cons of learning in various music schools? How not to be caught in a net of video schools? Video lessons, in-person lessons, or online webcam lessons — which is better? There are answers.

Singing and Guitar Lessons via Skype

2011.05.04–2024

Standards of Guitar-plus-Vocal School on YouTube

Denys Berezhnyi is now offering online guitar accompaniment and vocal lessons using Skype, Zoom, Discord, Google Meet.

Quality education based on your favorite songs. Webcam lessons can include development of ear for music, singing voice, sense of rhythm, development of interpretation and musicality, music theory training.

I also offer for those who are interested: writing sheet music, tablatures, transpositions, variations, simplification and complication of guitar accompaniment, adaptation of songs to suit your individual abilities.

Songwriting. Composition, song structure, harmonic analysis, melodic analysis, lyrics analysis.

Music performance. Performance and practice techniques and preparation, proper technique, repertoire, music analysis.

Help with choosing an instrument.

You yourself determine the intensity of the load and how many lessons you need.

The age of pupils is not limited. You can learn to sing and play guitar from scratch. Singular consultations are also available to singers and guitar players of any level (beginner, intermediate, or advanced).

Singing & Guitar Lessons Pricing: 15 euro / 60 minutes.

Denys Berezhnyi is a singer, songwriter, and teacher who has conservatory education, and extensive experience in music performing and teaching (more than 30 years of experience in this specialty). Education: Denys Berezhnyi received his Master of Arts in Vocal Performance, Pedagogy at Donetsk State Conservatory of Music, Ukraine, Sep 1992 – Jun 2001. He received his Bachelor of Education at Donetsk Pedagogical College, Ukraine, Sep 1988 – Jun 1992.

For all inquiries, please do not hesitate to write me an email or see the contact information page, which includes some more ways to reach me.

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My pupils

Webcam Singing and Guitar Lessons by Denys Berezhnyi

Golden Spikes
	1, 5, and 6. Love Me Like You (Little Mix) 2. Little me (Little Mix) 3. What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction) 4. Last Christmas (G. Michael) 7. Tuchi v golubom / Clouds in the Blue (A. Zhurbin – V. Aksyonov, P. Sinyavsky)
Kirill Romanenko
	Audio: Creep (Radiohead) Esli u vas netu teti / If you do not have an aunt (from film The Irony of Fate, M. Tariverdiev – A. Aronov)
Brothers Alexander Tupitsin (vocal, bass) and Paul Tupitsin (drums), Sannikov Land band
	Po doroge domoy / On the way home Zachem / What for (audio) Svoboda i rock-n-roll / Freedom and rock-n-roll Mne vse ravno / I do not care
Andrey Tsukanov (11–13 years old)
	1. Povorot / Turn of the road (Mashina Vremeni) 2, 5, and 8. Lubite devushki / Do love them, girls (Bravo) 3 and 6. Boogie-Woogie (from film Stilyagi, M. Naumenko – O. Tsipenyuk, M. Naumenko) 4 and 7. Mom (Skryabin)
Nastya, Polina, Tanya, Valeria The first concert was three months after the start of learning from scratch.
	What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction) Last Christmas (G. Michael)
Bohdan Maksymenko
	Pevets u mikrofona / A singer at the microphone (V. Vysotsky) (audio) Bratskie mogily / Common burials (V. Vysotsky) Zalizny dukh / Iron spirit (The Vyo) Pozhary / Fires (V. Vysotsky) Istoria / Story (B. Maksymenko) Myt / Moment (Okean Elzy) Skazhy yak ya / Tell me how I am (B. Maksymenko) Choven / Boat (Okean Elzy) Tepla zyma / Warm Winter (Skryabin) Vstavai / Get up (Okean Elzy) My smilo v bii pidem / We shall bravely go into battle (M. Steinberg, T. Kompanichenko – O. Teliha) Vzhe vesna / Already spring (B. Maksymenko) (audio) Brattia / Brothers (V. Zhadan) Polovinka / Half (Tantsy Minus) Lubite devushki / Do love them, girls (Bravo) Moy drug hudozhnik i poet / My friend painter and poet (K. Nikolsky) Odnazhdy mir prognetsia pod nas / Someday the world will bend around us (А. Makarevich) Deshevye dramy / Cheap dramas (V. Strykalo) U neye vse svoye / She has everything (V. Vysotsky) Videnie / Vision (M. Leonidov) et al.
Yeva
	Drag Me Down (One Direction) A.M. (One Direction) This Town (N. Horan) Night Changes (One Direction) Just Hold On (Steve Aoki feat. Louis Tomlinson) All Night (The Vamps, Matoma) Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Nastya
	Stand Up (in Korean) (J-Min)
Natalya Safronova (11 years old)
	Boogie-Woogie (from film Stilyagi, M. Naumenko – O. Tsipenyuk, M. Naumenko)
Eldar Teleshov (11–12 years old)
	Batareika / Battery (Zhuki) Ai-yai-ya (Bazil) Naemnik v zelenom berete / Mercenary in a green beret (author unknown) Nochnoy dozor / Night Watch (Uma2rman) Let's Be Friends (from video game Everlasting Summer, S. Eybog – I. Alekseev) Tri puti / Three ways (Lumen) Stan / Become (M. Korzh) Kak bietsia v grudi / How beats in the chest (Monolith) Hey stalker (M. Kruglova, Ensemble Monolith) Gimn Dolga / Anthem of Debt (M. Kruglova, Ensemble Monolith) Stalker (S.U.M.E.R.K.I) Brat moi, brat / My brother (Chancellor Gi) Vykhoda net / No exit (Splean) O toi vesne / About that spring (E. Plotnikova) Chempiony lubvi / Champions of love (Ranetki) Noch pered boem / Night before the fight (P. Plamenev) Za svit vstaly kozachenky / The Kozaks Were Ready to March at Dawn (M. Churai)
Sergey Guschin (9–10 years old)
	Bubentsy / Jingle Bells (J. Pierpont, Russian translation by G. Vasilyev) Khottabych (Boombox) Devushka po gorodu (Girl goes around the city) (V. Butusov)
Alice Chernova
	Last Christmas (G. Michael) Don't Be So Shy (Imany)
Vlad Yaroshevich (12 years old)
	Ya soldat / I am a soldier (5'nizza/Friday)
Kostiantyn Lytvyn (6 years old)
	Venus (Shocking Blue) Bubentsy / Jingle Bells (J. Pierpont, Russian translation by G. Aminov, G. Vasilyev) Kukushka / Cuckoo (V. Tsoi) Robin Bobin Barabek (G. Gladkov – K. Chukovsky) Zheltaya podvodnaya lodka / Yellow Submarine (The Beatles, Lennon–McCartney, changed Russian translation by J. Brodsky) Savka and Grishka (folk song) Alice (Ranetki) Paren chernokozhyi / Black Guy (L. Agutin)
Dmitry Babich (6 years old)
	Kukushka / Cuckoo (V. Tsoi) Eto mamin den / This Mother's Day (Yu. Tugarinov – M. Sadovsky)
Diana Bednaya (7 years old)
	Kukushka / Cuckoo (V. Tsoi)
Danila Garanzha (8 years old)
	Kukushka / Cuckoo (V. Tsoi)
Cuckooshata, a chorus of guitarists Hlib Yariichuk, Diana Bednaya, Dmitry Babich, Olesia Kondratko.
	Various performances of the simplified version of the song Kukushka / Cuckoo (V. Tsoi)
Andrii Chernyshov
	Kukushka / Cuckoo (V. Tsoi) Khottabych (Boombox)
Marko Tlekhuhov
	Videli noch / We saw the night (V. Tsoi)
Dmitry Kalugin and Miron Tsudikov
	1 and 2. Boogie-Woogie (from film Stilyagi, M. Naumenko – O. Tsipenyuk, M. Naumenko) 3. O toi vesne / About that spring (E. Plotnikova) 4. Chumachechaya vesna / Crazy spring (A. Potapenko)
Dmitry Kalugin, Hole Of The Universe band All songs, music and lyrics by D. Kalugin.
	CH.S.V Dyra Vselennoi Nenovogodnyaya Mne pofig na vsio Kak ty mogla? / How could you? Skoro my vernemsia / We'll be back soon Dobrye ludi Mne vsio nadoelo
Maria Tsarkova (9–11 years old)
	Listia zheltye / Yellow leaves (R. Pauls – J. Peters, I. Shaferan) Inogda / Sometimes (Alsou) Eto mamin den / This Mother's Day (Yu. Tugarinov – M. Sadovsky) O toi vesne / About that spring (E. Plotnikova) Do rassveta / Before sunrise (S. Kazanova & Arsenium) Ledi Sovershenstvo / Lady Perfection (from musical film Mary Poppins, Goodbye) (M. Dunayevsky – N. Olev) Leti, Liza / Fly, Lisa (Yolka) with Elizaveta Tsarkova Chempiony lubvi / Champions of love (Ranetki) Raiony-kvartaly / Districts, quarters (Zveri)
Elizaveta Tsarkova (11–13 years old)
	Don't Be So Shy (Imany) Vlublena / In love (Y. Beliz) Venus (Shocking Blue) Bud so mnoi riadom / Be with me near (A. Rakitin) with O. Pokyntelytsia Vinograd / Grape (A. Maksimova – M. Gonsales Moreau) Dvizheniya / Movements (E. Temnikova) Leti, Liza / Fly, Lisa (Yolka) with Maria Tsarkova, and singly Raiony-kvartaly / Districts, quarters (Zveri) Ne uznali / We do not know (K. Si) Esli v serdtse zhivet lubov / If love lives in your heart (A. Maksimova)
Oleksandr Pokyntelytsia
	Videli noch / We saw the night (V. Tsoi) Zombie (The Cranberries) Na zare / At dawn (Alliance) Come as You Are (Nirvana) Ya svoboden / I am free (V. Kipelov, S. Mavrin, M. Pushkina) Bubentsy / Jingle Bells (J. Pierpont, Russian translation by G. Vasilyev) Doroga v oblaka / Road to the clouds (Bravo) Englishman in New York (Sting) Progulki po vode / Walk on water (Nautilus Pompilius) Boogie-Woogie (from film Stilyagi, M. Naumenko – O. Tsipenyuk, M. Naumenko) Bud so mnoi riadom / Be with me near (A. Rakitin) with E. Tsarkova Day of the Lords (Joy Division) Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) Down by the River (Milky Chance) Flashed Junk Mind (Milky Chance) Kids With Guns (Gorillaz) Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan) Bonnie and Clyde (Splean)
Ilya Kardash (10 years old)
	1 and 2. Marionettes (A. Makarevich)
Sofia Solo
	Do svidanya, mama! / Goodbye, mom! (from film Stilyagi, N. Devlet-Kildeev) Spy sobi sama / Sleep alone (Skryabin) Ya vse sovral / I lied (Sofia Solo – Ell Tweet) Druh / Friend (Okean Elzy) Ty ne zvonish / You do not call (M. Kravets) Pyanuyu / Drunk (M. Kraimbrery) Znaesh / You know (Rozhden) Ne uznali / We do not know (K. Si) Ostanus / I'll stay (Gorod 312) Vam dostalos mnogo lestnykh slov / You got a lot of flattering words (Sofia Solo – E. Asadov) Raneny / We are injured (Liosha Svik) Ty tak krasiva / You're so beautiful (Quest Pistols)
Illia Malyi
	Voiny sveta / Warriors of Light (S. Mikhalok) Pachka sigaret / Pack of cigarettes (V. Tsoi) Otriad ne zametil poteri boitsa / The squad did not notice the loss of a fighter (E. Letov) Ledar / Idler (I. Malyi, D. Berezhnyi), performed by D. Berezhnyi
Liliya Loboda
	Valentine (Kina Grannis) Last Christmas (G. Michael) Bear Lullaby / Umka (E. Krylatov – Yu. Yakovlev) Krylatye kacheli / Winged swings (E. Krylatov – Yu. Entin) California (Chase Goehring) Night Changes (One Direction)
Aleksey Loboda
	Lubite, devushki / Do love them, girls (The Bravo) Tuchi v golubom / Clouds in the blue (A. Zhurbin – V. Aksyonov, P. Sinyavsky) Dykhaniye / Breath (Nautilus Pompilius)
Yeva Bodrova
	Zvezdy ostanutsya zdes / Stars will stay here (V. Tsoi) Videli noch / We saw the night (V. Tsoi) Raiony-kvartaly / Districts, quarters (Zveri) with Danylo Petrov
Danylo Petrov
	Moi druzia / My friends (V. Tsoi) Dozhd dlia nas / Rain for us (V. Tsoi) Veter / Wind (Brainstorm) Bezdelnik / Idler (V. Tsoi) Raiony-kvartaly / Districts, quarters (Zveri) with Yeva
Tatyana Velinchuk
	Marionettes (A. Makarevich) Pesnia pro medvedei / Song about bears (A. Zatsepin – L. Derbenyov) 33 korovy / 33 cows (from musical film Mary Poppins, Goodbye) (M. Dunayevsky – N. Olev)
Artem Yarosh
	Tramvaiami domoi / Getting home on a tram (Fogel) Mom (Skryabin) Nenuzhnyi / Unwanted (Verbee)
Illia Kharchenko
	Boogie-Woogie (from film Stilyagi, M. Naumenko – O. Tsipenyuk, M. Naumenko) Dozhd / Rain (DDT) Tantsui / Let's dance (Splean) Pol versty ognia i smerti / Half a verst of fire and death (A. Matov) Pachka sigaret / Pack of cigarettes (V. Tsoi) Videli noch / We saw the night (V. Tsoi) Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan) Zvezda po imeni Solntse / A Star Called the Sun (V. Tsoi), son and father duet Medusa (Matrang)
Oleksandr Kharchenko
	Nadezhda / Hope (A. Pakhmutova – N. Dobronravov) Trava u doma / Grass by the home (V. Migulya – A. Poperechny) Pol versty ognia i smerti / Half a verst of fire and death (A. Matov) Ne speshi / Don't rush (Chaif) Zvezda po imeni Solntse / A Star Called the Sun (V. Tsoi), son and father duet
Oleksandr
	I'll Be Your Mirror (Velvet Underground)
Valeryia Zamai, duet Khochu Sobaku! All songs, music and lyrics by V. Zamai except those mentioned below.
	Intro / Nightingale July / Tender age Baby Mammoth song (V. Shainsky – D. Nepomnyashchaya) Color of lilies Time City's Heart There on the mountain Overcoat Naked hedgehog Comet Rocket Dollhouse Lullaby It's good to have a long neck I'm a superhero! I want a dog I'm nobody today Fresh breeze Dolphins
Oleg
	Adelaide (B. Grebenschikov) Ptitsy belye moi /My white birds (K. Nikolsky) Koster / Bonfire (A. Makarevich)
Olga Vasilyeva
	Siyala noch / To love you, to hug you and to cry over you (N. Shiryaev – A. Fet)
Andrey Reshetnikov
	Koshka / Cat (A. Makarevich) Ya sprosil u yasenia / I asked the ash tree (from film The Irony of Fate) (M. Tariverdiev – V. Kirshon) Bear Lullaby / Umka (E. Krylatov – Yu. Yakovlev) Vashe blagorodie / Your Noble Highness Lady Fortune (from film White Sun of the Desert) (I. Schwartz – B. Okudzhava) Nichego na svete luchshe netu / There is nothing better in the world (from film The Bremen Town Musicians) (G. Gladkov – Yu. Entin) Polovinka / Half (Tantsy Minus) Bumazhnyi soldat / Paper soldier (B. Okudzhava) Veter peremen / The wind of change (from musical film Mary Poppins, Goodbye) (M. Dunayevsky – N. Olev) Pesnia razboynikov / Song of the robbers (from film The Bremen Town Musicians) (G. Gladkov – Yu. Entin) Za tekh kto v more / For those who are at sea (Mashina Vremeni) Skvorets / Starling (A. Makarevich) Marionettes (A. Makarevich) Lubite devushki / Do love them, girls (Bravo) Naemnik v zelenom berete / Mercenary in a green beret (author unknown) Kto-to prostit / Someone will forgive (M. Nasyrov) Listia zheltye / Yellow leaves (R. Pauls – J. Peters, I. Shaferan) Milaia moia / My dearest (Yu. Vizbor) V gornitse moey svetlo / In My Room (A. Morozov – N. Rubtsov) Povorot / Turn (Mashina Vremeni) Ona idet po zhizni smeyas / She walks through life laughing (Mashina Vremeni) Koster / Bonfire (Mashina Vremeni)
Igor Kotlyarov
	Bonnie and Clyde (Splean) Romance (Splean)
Olga Dmitruk
	Kogda b my zhili bez zatey / If we lived simply (V. Dolina)
Pareniok Prostoi All songs, music and lyrics by Pareniok Prostoi except those mentioned below.
	Dom / House Vash zvonok / Your call Sobaka-Barabaka / Dog Barabaka Pulia / Bullet Shkolnaya lubov / School love Ctrl+Alt+Del P. D. N. Geroi / Heroes Tebe / For you Vspominaite / Remember him Student Vitalia Ofisnye krysy / Office rats Drugaya zhyzn / Another life Uber Batareika / Battery (Zhuki) Pachka sigaret / Pack of cigarettes (V. Tsoi) Student (performed by D. Berezhnyi) Pareniok Prostoi / Simple guy Svoboda / Freedom Brat / Brother Plan kapkan / Trap plan
Andrey
	Radioactive (Imagine Dragons) Summer Wine (Lee Hazlewood) Stuk (Knock) (V. Tsoi)
Oleh Pshenychnykov
	Vykhoda net / No exit (Splean) Spi v zabroshennom dome / Sleep in an abandoned house (Splean)
Olga Fufaeva
	A vse-taki zhal / But still, it's a pity (B. Okudzhava) Ya v vesennem lesu pil beryozovy sok / I Drank a Birch Sap in the Spring Forest (E. Agranovich)
Valery
	Mayak (Splean)
Liudmyla Levashova (vocal, guitar) and Eduard Levashov (bass) All songs, music and lyrics by L. Levashova.
	Idu dorogoi / I've been on this road Vera pobedivshaya mir / Faith that conquers the world Vo slave i sile Ty gryadesh / His coming in glory and power Vot ya, Gospod / Here I Am, Lord Delai shag vpered / Take a step forward Ibo tak vozlubil Bog etot mir / For God so loved the world Slavte Boga, nebesa / Heaven, Praise God Bog riadom / God is near Zavtrashii den / Tomorrow Slava Tebe / Glory to You Veryu / I believe Bud prevoznesen! / Be Exalted Iisus, Tebia lyublyu / Jesus, I love You
Hundreds of thousands of indirect pupils For many years, my author's methodical recommendations can be seen on the websites of other teachers, in particular SHAK School of Guitar and Ukulele. This means that I can safely count hundreds of thousands of adherents of this and other schools as my pupils. I am glad that other teachers use my resources to help their pupils learn and practice.

Oleksandr Palchyk
	Alye parusa / Scarlet Sails (author unknown)
Sergey Rudnev
	Zimniy vecher / Winter evening (music and lyrics by S. Rudnev) Mechty detstva / Dreams of the childhood (music and lyrics by S. Rudnev)
Slawa Wendland All songs, music and lyrics by S. Wendland.
	Yeralash po-vzroslomu / Grown-up mishmash Pogadai tsyganka na sudbu / Gypsy woman Oblaka / Clouds Trusy semeinye / Boxer shorts Mnogogrannaya zhizn / Multifaceted life Posviaschenie V. Vysotskomu / Dedication to V. Vysotsky
The joint work of the learners and their teacher
	Devchonka-odnoklassnitsa / Classmate Girl (D. Berezhnyi – S. Rudnev) Ledar / Lazy (I. Malyi, D. Berezhnyi) Noch bessonna i dlinna... / Sleepless And Long Night (S. Rudnev, D. Berezhnyi – S. Rudnev) Vsi normalni kokhannia maiut / All normal people have love (B. Maksymenko, D. Berezhnyi – B. Maksymenko) Student (music and lyrics by Pareniok Prostoi) Tri svechi / Three Candles (S. Rudnev, D. Berezhnyi – S. Rudnev)